The client’s brief was to move the existing canning line out and locate it in a newly acquired brownfield factory in another country, all within one month! Canning is an important part of the business and strategically the client wanted to centralise canning into one location leaving valuable room for another line in the doner

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The client’s brief was to assess an existing wet pouch and to build an action plan to reduce the number of seal failures and decrease the time for incubation prior to the pouches being packed. Seal integrity is the Achilles heel of Wet petfood pouch production. Whilst the format is great for the purchaser giving

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The Brief We were asked to assess an existing semi-automated packing line at a recent acquisition, and provide guidance on how capacity could be increased whilst automating the manual elements of the line. After an initial site visit t was clear that the site team had a design they were keen for me to validate.

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Following a major capital investment at this blue-chip food manufacturer in the UK, the management team was fighting the process and delivering very low productivity and high unit costs. I was brought in to reverse the trend and over an 18 month period identified structural weakness in the operational structure that lead to several key

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This blue-chip food manufacturer wanted to expand production into Eastern Europe. After working with the senior leadership team to define the scope, budget and timescale of the project I managed the implementation of the green field factory end-to-end over a 3 year period. I worked closely with logistics teams to ensure incoming materials supply, the

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